Location: U.S. Route 202 at mile marker 30.3[1] near Old Concord Road
"This Contoocook River crossing was established by the Second New Hampshire Turnpike Corporation, chartered in 1799 to build a toll highway sixty miles from Amherst to Claremont.[lower-alpha 1] Opened in 1801 and made free in 1837, the turnpike joined rich Connecticut River Valley farms with Massachusetts markets. Named for the wide plain to the south,[lower-alpha 2] a steel Warren Truss bridge of late 19th or early 20th century design stood here until 2009."[6]
"Known as Granny Stalbird, Deborah Vicker came through Crawford Notch c.1796 as cook for Col. Joseph Whipple.[lower-alpha 3] It is said she brought the first bible to the north country. She married Richard Stalbird and settle on land deeded to her by Whipple in payment for her service. She became the region's 'doctress,' a traveling herbalist who learned native wisdom about plants and healing. Stories of her knowledge, bravery and dedication to settlers of this new frontier are part of the history of White Mountain settlement."[8]
230. Robert Frost in Allenstown / Buck Street Mills
Frost's "The Quest of the Orchis" as published in The Independent of New York City on June 27, 1901
"In the summer of 1896, aspiring post Robert Frost (1874–1963) and his wife Elinor spent a belated honeymoon in a rented cottage near the Suncook River in Allenstown. Carl Burell, a high school friend and avid naturalist, was foreman at the Moulton box shop at Buck Street dam. Botany walks with Burell awakened Frost to the natural world, coloring his later writings. Frost recalled these walks in 'The Quest of the Orchis' (1901). Burell's 1896 injury in a mill accident inspired Frost's poem, 'The Self-Seeker'."[9]
"A bridge was built at 'Buck Street,' by the 1750s. Natural falls were dammed to power saw and grist mills before 1767. The 19th c. added a water-powered fulling mill for cleansing wool cloth by 1813, a bedstead shop by 1845, a spoke shop in the 1850s and twine mills. By the 1890s, the dams powered Charles Fisher's axe handle factory and Reuben C. Moulton's box and trunk shop. Then known as East Pembroke, the area had a post office, store, blacksmith shop, houses and workers' tenements."[10]
Location: Water Street at Warren Historical Society[1]
"In 1975 Norris Cotton celebrated 50 years of elected public service, having served in both the state legislature and Congress. Born in Warren in 1900, Cotton worked his way through Phillips Exeter Academy and Wesleyan University before being elected to the State House in 1922. In 1947 he began writing weekly reports from Congress to his constituents, published in local newspapers. His humble beginnings, rise to power, and consistent connection to New Hampshire's people embodied an American way of life."[11][12]
"The Homestead Woolen Mills Dam on the Ashuelot River was a rock-filled, timber crib dam, a common dam type in the 19th century. It was originally built in the 1850s to power woolen and woodenware mills. In the late 19th century it served the Stratton Mills and the West Swanzey Mfg. Co. Homestead Woolen Mills, Inc., took over the buildings and dam in 1911. The company employed many residents of the area until it closed in 1985. The dam was used only for water control after the 1920s until its removal in 2010."[13]
"The village of Zealand grew up in 1875 to serve the logging industry. Henry owned 10,000 acres in the heart of the White Mtns., with a 10-mile railroad to move logs from forest to sawmill. The village had a post office, school, store, housing, and charcoalkilns to eke out every bit of forest value. Depending on the season, the logging business employed 80–250 men. By 1885, Henry left the Valley moving on to Lincoln, leaving the area mostly clear cut. From 1886–1903, fires destroyed the valley and village."[14]
"The Bypass was part of a major New Deal project to move U.S. Route 1 traffic away from the congested streets of downtown Portsmouth. The Bypass created a second Piscataqua River crossing into Maine via the Interstate (Sarah M. Long) Bridge. The highway's wide divided lanes and grade separations were the first in the state, earning it the title 'New Hampshire's Most Modern Highway.' Today, the U.S. Route 1 Bypass is one of the oldest signed bypasses in the country's numbered route system."[15]
"The Gilmanton Village Manufacturing Co., under the leadership of Gov. William Badger, built the Belmont Mill in the 1830s. It first produced cotton cloth, but was converted to hosiery knitting in 1865. In 1885, it had the largest annual production of hosiery in NH. With major renovation and mechanization in the 1920s, the Belmont Hosiery Co. was famous for its full-fashioned hosiery, distributed worldwide. The last stocking was knit in 1970, after over a century of local manufacturing in Belmont."[16]
"Mostly abandoned in the 1970s, the mill suffered a devastating 1992 fire. In 1995, the mill was on the verge of demolition when citizens fought to explore re-use options. After a charrette conducted by Plan NH, federal funding restored the roof to its 1830s design, and helped rehabilitate facade and interiors. Press rededication reports in 1998 called the building's new era as town and community center the 'Miracle in Main Street.'"[17]
From May 1861 to December 1864, twelve New Hampshire Civil War regiments and a cavalry unit mustered on 'The Plains' and other nearby locations in Concord. Here they gathered to equip, train, and await orders, living in tents or temporary barracks. 32,486 soldiers from NH served in the war, which cost the state at least 4,840 lives, more than 1% of the population. 21 soldiers from NH units were awarded the Medal of Honor, established 1861."[18]
Location: Intersection of Langford Road and Depot Road[1]
Note: The marker has different text on each side.
"East Candia was a dense neighborhood of workers' housing developed around the local shoe industry in the 1850s, exemplifying a late-19c. industrial economy made possible by the arrival of the Portsmouth and Concord Railroad in 1852. The area's most significant growth came after 1855, when the first of two mechanized shoe factories opened. The new prosperity resulted in a building boom in the popular Stick Style, characterized by decorative trusses in gable ends, many in porches and door hoods, still visible today."[21]
"The town of Candia developed five distinct village centers, each with a strong visual character and identiry. The Hill remains the most picturesque and was the site of the 1763 town meetinghouse and school lot. The Village was a diverse 19th c. mill complex on the North Branch River. Bean's Island was established around a mill in 1872. Candia Depot sprang up with the 1851 arrival of the Portsmouth-Concord Railroad. East Candia was created around the local shoe industry. These five centers made up the town of Candia."[22]
"When Europeans settled in New England in the 1620s, the largest Native American tribal group in the future state of New Hampshire used the flat lands and bends of the Merrimack River in present Concord for its central village. Named 'Pennacook', which means 'at the falling bank', they were a branch of the Abenaki. The Pennacook were allied with other tribal groups in the Merrimack watershed and owed allegiance to the sagamorePassaconaway. Once numbering in the thousands, by the 1720s only a remnant of the group remained in the area."[23]
"Established by local families, the Gilford Outing Club provided all-seasons outdoor recreation for local children through parent volunteering. Particularly well-known for ski instruction, the Club trained hundreds of children including three Olympic athletes: Marty Hall, Dick Taylor, and medalist Penny Pitou. The Club operated from this site from 1950 until it disbanded in 1992. Donated to the town in 1994 by Gary and Lucille Allen's family, the land and buildings still serve to provide outdoor recreation for the town."[24]
"On March 3, 1860, Abraham Lincoln delivered his final of four speeches in New Hampshire at Exeter Town Hall. Lincoln had strong ties to Exeter due to the influence of Amos Tuck, of this town, who is credited with the creation of the Republican Party. Both men served in Congress from 1847–1850. It was at the suggestion of Tuck that Lincoln enrolled his son, Robert, in Phillips Exeter Academy. Both Lincoln and Tuck promoted free-state policies and opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories."[25]
"This village, formerly called North Enfield, grew around mills powered by the Mascoma River. In the 1840s, railroad service and economic investment by the Enfield Shakers laid the foundation for its growth as a mill village that prospered over the next 100 years. The village's connection with the Shakers is a defining element of its economic and cultural history. In 2010, downtown Enfield Village was listed in the National Register of Historic Places."[26]
"Natural ice was harvested in the Lakes Region. Goodwin Basin and Crescent Lake, visible across the road, and Lake Wentworth were local sources. In 1895, Alonso Avery set up an ice house near Crescent Lake. In 1913 a warm winter caused an ice shortage in Boston, and ice was shipped from NH by rail. Locally, ice was delivered to family ice chests, businesses, camps, and lake cruisers. Refrigeration technology in the 1930s decreased the need for natural ice. The last family ice business, Moody's, closed in 1965."[27]
Location: Intersection of NH 103 and Kearsarge Mountain Road[1]
"Three miles from here looms Mt. Kearsarge, elev. 2,937 ft. Since the Civil War, four U.S. Naval vessels have been named 'Kearsarge'.[lower-alpha 7]The first, a 1,550-ton sloop of war built largely of oak timber from the Mt. Kearsarge foothills, earned fame under the command of Capt. John Winslow when it sank the CSS Alabama near Cherbourg, France in 1864. In 1992, the U.S. Navy christened the newest USS Kearsarge (LHD3), an amphibious assault ship, each of its commissioning crewmembers received a commemorative plank crafted from Mt. Kearsarge red oak trees."[28]
"Born in Boston on July 21, 1755, Diamond was a wheelwright by trade. He learned the art of drumming from a British soldier. April 19, 1775, he was part of the guard of Rev. Jonas Clarke's Lexington, MA house, where John Hancock and Samuel Adams were meeting. Paul Revere's alert that British troops were coming prompted Capt. John Parker to have Diamond beat the call to arms, sounding the start of the American Revolution.[lower-alpha 8] Diamond died in 1828 and is buried here in Peterborough's Second Cemetery with many Revolutionary War vets."[29]
"The US Forest Service purchased 7,022 acres of timber-covered mountain slopes, cliffs, streams, ponds, and abandoned farmland from Haverhill businessman E. Bertram Pike on January 2, 1914. The purchase was the first acquisition towards the establishment of the White Mountains National Forest in 1918, a significant accomplishment to restore and protect lands and watersheds from the impact of years or destructive practices. The nearly 800,000-acre WMNF is carefully managed as a working forest, sustaining the health, beauty, and productivity of natural resources."[30]
Location: 570 Canaan Street near Historical Society Museum[1]
"Chartered in 1834 by Samuel Noyes and other Canaan citizens, it was the first-known upper-level co-ed school in the US open to African Americans. The school opened in 1835, but months later, outraged opponents used a team of oxen to drag the Academy building down Canaan Street and forced the Black pupils out of town. This brief experiment in educational equality helped launch the public careers of Black leaders Henry Highland Garnet, Alexander Crummell, and Thomas Sipkins Sidney. Garnet was the first African-American to preach in Congress (1865)."[31]
"Donated in 1809 by Mr. Thomas Huse, this bell is likely from Paul Revere Jr.'s foundry. The inscription reads, 'The living to the church I call, and to the grave I summons all.' The town elected a bell ringer annually, and the bell was rung for church services, funerals, emergencies, and for many years, to mark the time thrice each day. By local tradition, it is still rung at 12:01 am on the 4th of July each year."[32]
Location: Across the street from 252 Sandwich Hill Road[1]
"The first house in town was built on this hill. Daniel Beede and 15 men built a log house in Nov. 1767. Beede was a dominant character in the early history of Sandwich, a surveyor, a businessman, the first town clerk and on the first Board of Selectmen. He was Sandwich's delegate in 1775 to the 5th Provincial Congress; Col. John Wentworth was president of the first three. John's grandson, Paul, later owned the Beede farm. Beede died in 1799; he is buried in the cemetery next to the house site."[33]
"In 1941 NH constructed a concrete rigid-frame bridge to carry NH Route 125 over the Exeter River. This bridge type, used extensively in the 1930s, was a high point in American concrete bridge design. The design used a reinforced joint between the horizontal and vertical members. In this bridge, the steel was bent at right angles at the joint, distributing the load between the members. Bridge designer Clifford Broker (1903–1992), a civil engineer with NH State Highway Dept., had particular expertise in reinforced concrete design and designed over 25 bridges in NH, 7 of this type."[lower-alpha 9]
"Pembroke Street is one of several parallel roads laid out when the town was planned between 1730–36. The original large lots along this wide thoroughfare were subdivided into smaller lots for dwellings, meeting houses for Congregationalists and Presbyterians, taverns, stores, schoolhouses, and Pembroke's earliest cemetery, making the street a linear village by 1755. After 1804, Pembroke Street became an extension toward Concord of the Chester Turnpike, a privately built 19-mile toll road connecting Chester and Pembroke."[36][lower-alpha 10]
"Clean water was essential to the health of horses, particularly on heavily traveled roads and in extreme weather. A state statute of 1858 authorized towns to reimburse private citizens who provided and maintained watering troughs for the use of travelers' horses. In 1884, Pembroke took the added step of providing 'good drinking water for man and beast' at public expense, purchasing this trough from the C. A. Bailey Granite Company in Allenstown for $124[lower-alpha 11] and adding a bronze drinking fountain for human refreshment."[36]
↑ Colonel Joseph Whipple of Jefferson (1738–1816)[7] is a different person than the like-named Colonel Joseph Whipple of Rhode Island, who died in 1746.
↑ Wording in the state's listing mentions NH 10, which is located 1,400 feet (430m) west.
↑ 17th New Hampshire failed to complete organization; its two companies were transferred to 2nd New Hampshire.[19]
↑ Wording in the state's listing mentions U.S. Route 4, which is located 450 feet (140m) north.
↑ Another ship initially named Kearsarge was renamed Hornet prior to launch (CV-12).
Allenstown is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,707 at the 2020 census, up from 4,322 at the 2010 census. Allenstown includes a portion of the village of Suncook. Just over one-half of the town's area is covered by Bear Brook State Park.
Pembroke is a New England town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 7,207 at the 2020 census. Pembroke includes part of the village of Suncook. The center of population of New Hampshire is close to the Pembroke town center.
Candia is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,013 at the 2020 census. The town includes the villages of Candia, Candia Four Corners and East Candia.
Deerfield is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,855 at the 2020 census, up from 4,280 in 2010. Deerfield is the location of the annual Deerfield Fair.
Hooksett is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 14,871 at the 2020 census, up from 13,451 at the 2010 census. The town is located between Manchester, the state's largest city, and Concord, the state capital. A prominent landmark is Robie's Country Store, a National Historic Landmark and a frequent stop for presidential candidates during the New Hampshire primary.
U.S. Route 3 (US 3) is a United States Numbered Highway running 277.90 miles (447.24 km) from Cambridge, Massachusetts, through New Hampshire, to the Canada–United States border near Third Connecticut Lake, where it connects to Quebec Route 257.
New Hampshire Route 101 is a state-maintained highway in southern New Hampshire extending from Keene to Hampton Beach. It is the major east–west highway in the southern portion of the state. Most of its eastern portion is a major freeway linking the greater Manchester area to the Seacoast Region. At 95.189 miles (153.192 km) in length, NH 101 nearly spans the entire width of southern New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Route 27 is a 37.621-mile-long (60.545 km) long east–west highway in southeastern New Hampshire. The western terminus of NH 27 is in Hooksett at U.S. Route 3 and New Hampshire Route 28 north of Manchester. The eastern terminus is in Hampton Beach at New Hampshire Route 1A, which runs along the New Hampshire coastline adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. Route 4 in New Hampshire runs for 106.834 miles (171.933 km) across the central and southern part of the state, stretching from Lebanon on the Connecticut River border with Vermont southeast to Portsmouth on the eastern coast.
↑ Jonathan Myrick Daniels 1939–1965 (Historical marker). Keene, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ The Nansen Ski Jump (Historical marker). Milan, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ "Deering Master Plan"(PDF). August 5, 2003. p.VI-21. Retrieved September 3, 2019– via NH.gov.
↑ Cork Plain Bridge – Second NH Turnpike (Historical marker). Antrim, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Granny Stalbird 1755–1845 (Historical marker). Jefferson, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Robert Frost in Allenstown (Historical marker). Allenstown, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Buck Street Mills (Historical marker). Allenstown, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
↑ Norris Cotton statesman 1900–1989 (Historical marker). Warren, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ The Homestead Woolen Mills Dam (Historical marker). Swanzey, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Zealand and James Everell Henry (Historical marker). Carroll, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Belmont Mill (Historical marker). Belmont, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Saving the Belmont Mill (Historical marker). Belmont, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Concord's Civil War Mustering Camps (Historical marker). Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ East Candia: The Langford District (Historical marker). East Candia, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ Candia: One Town, Five Villages (Historical marker). East Candia, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ The Pennacook (Historical marker). Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
↑ The Gilford Outing Club, 1946–1992 (Historical marker). Gilford, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
↑ Downtown Enfield Village (Historical marker). Enfield, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
↑ Ice Harvesting in Wolfeboro (Historical marker). Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
↑ Bruno, Michael A. (2018). Cruising New Hampshire History: A Guide to New Hampshire's Roadside Historical Markers. Lloyds Hill Publishing. p.58. ISBN978-0692107287.
↑ Noyes Academy (Historical marker). Canaan, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
↑ The Bell of Hampstead Meeting House (Historical marker). Hampstead, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. 2018. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
↑ Driemeyer, Laura B. (2010). "Clifford Broker, Sr"(PDF). Preservation Company. Retrieved August 12, 2019– via NH.gov. This monograph was written as mitigation for the removal of a reinforced concrete rigid-frame bridge designed by Clifford Broker in 1941 (Bridge No. 073/065). The bridge originally carried NH Route 125 (Crawley Falls Road) over the Exeter River in Brentwood.
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